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Besides this, I often asked myself, how my brethren fare, whose ancestors were scattered, after the captivity of Babylon: those tribes of Israel, who, according to the sacred oracles, shall be united to the house of Judah; and whose present abode is a matter of speculation among many Christian Divines, and Jewish Rabbies. The latter assign to them a fabulous country, which they call "The land of darkness, beyond the Sabbathical river." Benjamin Tudela, and the Jews of Jerusalem boldly asserted, that they were residing at Halah and Habor, which they state to be the present Balkh and Bokhara. In the year 1829, being then at Jerusalem, I said to my wife, "Bokhara and Balkh are very much in my mind, for I think I shall there find the Ten Tribes." "Well," she replied, “I have no objection to your going there." In consequence of this, I took my wife to Alexandria, and then made an excursion to Salonica, to see the followers of SHABATAY ZEBI, a Jewish sect; and from thence returned to Malta, where I left my family in the circle and care of kind friends; and, furnished with money from one whom I may term a fatherly friend, I left Malta on the 29. December 1830, in the French Brig Triomphante, for Alexandria. We had fine weather and favourable winds. December 30. 1830.-Preached the gospel of Christ to the captain and sailors. The Captain, although he disbelieved the Bible, abstained from meat on friday. January 1. 1831. — I was delighted at observing this day marks of devotion among French sailors, signing themselves with the cross, and reading the Scriptures which I gave them. Religion in any form, is much more consoling and cheering than infidelity! The captain spoke with delight of the discoveries made by Champollion in Hieroglyphics. As long as those Savans communicate their hypothesis with modesty and deference, their exertions are laudable; but as soon as they attempt to invalidate the testimony of the sacred records with

their A. B. C. inventions, they render themselves liable to be suspected as charlatans. Moses must have understood Hieroglyphics better than Champollion.

ARRIVAL AT ALEXANDRIA.

January 8. 1831.— I arrived at Alexandria in Egypt, for the sixth time; where I met with Captain Lyons, commanding H. M. S. Blonde, in which, on his arrival at Alexandria, Sir John Malcolm was expected to sail for Malta. Having been exiled from Egypt, five months previous to this, by order of Mohammed Ali, on account of my having preached to Mohammedans, I put myself on board the Blonde; where I remained, until Mr. Barker, the British Consul, assured me, I might come on shore. I lived with the family of Mr. Gliddon.

January 10. The power of Mohammed Ali has increased, through the weakness and timidity of the Sultan; and people of discernment believe, that Mohammed Ali is making preparations to dethrone him; it is conjectured, that the Sultan has given him Candia, in order to embroil him with the European powers, who might interfere, if he attempted to subdue the Candiotes by force. *

DAFTAR DAR BEY.

The Daftar Dar Bey, son-in-law to Mohammed Ali, does not live with his wife; both are dissolute characters. He, the Daftar Dar Bey, is a true and genuine Mussulman, for the religion of Islam accords very well with the practice of immorality. The following cruel acts are related of him. When he returned ten years ago from the Sanaar, he brought a lion with him: and his delight was, to see flesh thrown to this animal, and afterwards

Query. Is not Mohammed Ali, after all, the cruel Lord mentioned in Isaiah, as the predicted Ruler over Egypt? Is. xix. 4.

drawn out of the lion's mouth by some poor Arab, at the imminent risk of his destruction!

One day, when mounting his favourite horse, he observed it to be lame, and examining into the cause, it appeared that one of the shoe-nails had wounded his foot; whereupon he sent for his chief groom, and asked him, how many years he had been in,his service; the groom replied, "Twenty years;" the Daftar Dar Bey rejoined, "And in so many years, you have not learned to shoe a horse? now I will teach you;" and upon this, he ordered two horse-shoes to be nailed on to the poor man's feet! This man is since dead.

January 10.-I proclaimed the gospel to some disciples of Rousseau, and to some Carbonari. It is curious to see those preachers of Pseudo liberty taking refuge with and serving the Egyptian tyrant, and assisting him in oppressing the poor Felah, (peasantry.)

CAVIGLIA.

It is remarkable, that.Egypt has been, in several ages, the seat of mystical philosophy: once that of the Essenes, then Philo the Jew, Pythagoras, and now Caviglia, who formerly distinguished himself by his discoveries in the Pyramids, and now devotes his time to the most abstruse researches of mystical antiquity. I found him in possession of a very curious book, entitled "Delle Scuole Sacre, libri due postumi del Conte Palatino Domenico Aulesio." According to this author, (of whom I never heard before) there had been at Theman, an Academy of Science, and another at Debir or Kirjath Sepher, mentioned in Jeremiah xlix. 7, and in Joshua xv. 15, 49.

It is also said by him, I know not upon what ground, that Moses found the genealogy, mentioned in the thirty sixth chapter of Genesis, in the Synagogues of Egypt.

DEPARTURE FOR DAMIAT.

Jan. 19, 1831.- It was my intention at first, to have proceeded by sea from Damiat to Adalyah, called also Sataliah; but when I arrived at Damiat, I found no ship there; I stopt therefore a few days at Damiat, and proclaimed the gospel to Jews and Mohammedans. The Mufti of Damiat made me acquainted with the four Classes of the Mohammedans, who have different rites.

1. Hanefee, to which the Sultan himself, and all the inhabitants of Anatolia belong.

2. Shafae, to which class the Mohammedans in Egypt belong.

3. Malke, which comprises those in Yemen, the Arabs, and the Moors in Barbary.

4. Hambare, this class is not extensive.

VIEWS OF THE MOHAMMEDANS AT DAMIAT

RESPECTING MOHDE.

Of the twelve Imams or followers of Mohammed, the last disappeared when a child; and the Mohammedans believe in his coming again. At Damiat, the following expectation was expressed to me about Mohde. The Mohde shall come from Khorossaun with a black flag, his name shall be Mohammed Mohde, and he shall go to Mecca, where he shall be proclaimed Sovereign; thence he shall go to Damascus, accompanied by Michael, Gabriel, and Seraphiel, and three thousand other angels; there he shall reign thirty or forty years, and shall take Constantinople; and at the end of his government, there shall be a famine, and Antichrist shall make his appearance, who shall make war with Mohde, and Mohde shall be put to flight, and Antichrist shall reign forty days: one day like a year, the second day like a month, the third day like a week, and thirty seven days like other days; and Antichrist shall go round the world, except Mecca,

Medina, Jerusalem, Mount Sinai and Khorossaun; and he shall feed those who worship him.

After this, Jesus Christ shall come down upon the Mosque Amawe at Damascus; and there, he shall find Muhammed Mohde, and Mohde shall meet Antichrist at Lyt, near Jaffa; and Jesus Christ shall kill Antichrist with a lance; whose army, composed of Jews, shall take to flight. Then Jesus Christ shall reign forty years; then the earth shall be good, and shall bring forth fruit without being sown. At last Gog and Magog* shall appear; the Lord Jesus Christ shall go to meet them at the head of twelve thousand men, and shall go to Mount Sinai, where Gog and Magog shall be killed by birds, who shall carry their bodies into distant lands. Then the Almighty shall send rain to cleanse the earth from their stench; then Christ shall descend from Sinai, and shall remain on earth seven years; then all the just shall die; then Seraphiel shall blow the trumpet, and all the rest shall die.

ORIGIN OF DREAMS.

According to my friend, the Mufti, men have two spirits; the one, at the time of sleep, goes about in the world, to seek news for the other spirit, which remains behind. I thereupon proclaimed to the Mufti, to the native Christians and Jews, my belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, in the power of his blood, his resurrection, and the future glory of his coming, when he shall take possession of the earth, in royal and sacerdotal dignity.

DEPARTURE FROM DAMIAT, AND RETURN
TO ALEXANDRIA.

Not having been able to find at Damiat a boat either for Lattachia or Adalyah, I returned to Alexandria,

Gog and Magog, according to the Mufti of Damiat, are two nations, that inhabit a part of the world, which was shut up by Alexander the Great.

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